INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 133 
above, covered beneath with dense appressed stiff hairs, decurrent along the top of the 
sheath in a narrow, straight band, bordered with stiff curved bristles; ligule narrowed, 
fimbriate. eaves rather variable, thin, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; 6 to 12 in. 
long by 12 to 18 in. broad, rounded at the base into a thick 2 in. long hairy petiole, 
which is swollen into a large callus below; above cuspidately acuminate with a scabrous 
point scabrous on the margins and rough on both sides, pale beneath and slightly pilose 
especially on the midrib; main vein conspicuous, pale, broad, hairy below, secondary 
veins 10 pairs, intermediate 5 to 7, transverse veinlets very few; leaf-sheaths smooth, 
striate, keeled, ending in a narrow ciliate callus and bearing short auricles furnished 
with a few white stiff bristles; ligule very short, fimbriate." 
Page 111, line 10. Add: “Found recently (March 1895) by Mr. J. W. Oliver 
in evergreen forest near the Indawgyi lake, Bhamo district, Burma, where its native 
name is Waba, Burm. Also, by the same, in February 1895, in leaf only, near Mohnyin 
under the Kachin name Lakra.” 
Page 111, line 18, at end. Add: “11, leaf-branch—naíural size; 12, culm-sheath 
—reduced about 4; 13, top of leaf-sheath—enlarged (from Mr. J. W. Oliver’s specimens).” 
hae: Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc. Vor. VII. 
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